British Quote by Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the…

— Doris Lessing

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that…

— Bob Woodward

“This, it seemed, was just what happened when you left someone. They disappeared behind you like the wake of a boat.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

— Paul Verlaine

“All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.”

— Luke Montgomery

Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm worried about…

— Osama Alomar

“I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What…

— Peter Greenaway

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these…

— Malcolm X

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

— Steven Wright

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering…

— George VI

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and…

— Joseph Chamberlain